Numbers 9:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.

New Living Translation
This was the regular pattern—at night the cloud that covered the Tabernacle had the appearance of fire.

English Standard Version
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

Berean Study Bible
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.

New American Standard Bible
That is how it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

NASB 1995
So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

NASB 1977
So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Amplified Bible
So it was continuously; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Christian Standard Bible
It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke covering the tent glowed like fire.

International Standard Version
It was so continuously—there was a cloud covering by day, and a fire cloud appeared at night.

NET Bible
This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

New King James Version
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

King James 2000 Bible
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

New Heart English Bible
So it was continually. The cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

World English Bible
So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

American King James Version
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

American Standard Version
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

A Faithful Version
So it was always. The cloud covered it by day, and it appeared like fire by night.

Darby Bible Translation
So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

English Revised Version
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Webster's Bible Translation
So it was always; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So it was always: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
So it was alway: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearaunce of fire by nyght.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
So came it to passe allwaye, yt the cloude couered it by daye, & the symilitude of fyre by night.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And so it was allwaye that the cloude couered it by daye and the symylitude of fyre by nyghte.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
so it is continually; the cloud covers it, also the appearance of fire by night.

Young's Literal Translation
so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.

Smith's Literal Translation
So shall it be always: the cloud shall cover it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This was so continually: throughout the day a cloud covered it, and throughout the night, the appearance of fire.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
So it was constantly, and a cloud was covering it by day and the appearance of fire in the night.

Lamsa Bible
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
















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